HARE AND HOUNDS - AND MAY THEIR SHADOWS NEVER GROW LESS. Mrs. Miniver. "How exhausted they look, poor fellows! Fancy doing that sort of thing for mere pleasure!"

Little Timpkins (his bosom swelling with national pride). "Ah, but it's all through doing that sort of thing for MERE PLEASURE, mind you, that we English are - WHAT WE ARE!" [Bully for little Timpkins!]

--Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, the cross-country running club of the University of Cambridge

Keywords hare and hounds, cross country runners, English identity, national characteristics, pub dog, nationalism, exercise, physical activity, runner

Illustrator: George du Maurier from British humor/satire magazine September 17, 1881 and pulled from the magazine, not a modern reproduction.  Partial page cartoon measures 5 1/4 x 7 inches. Full size 8 x 10 1/2 inches, shown slightly cropped. Condition: excellent -- still bright paper, clean, paper lays flat (no handling or storage wear); unrelated text on front and backsides with some show-through (ghosting) as published, please look closely. May be framed.

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